My fave street in Singapore...it actually stands for Upper Dickson but ya gotta love it!!
Singapore is not quite as captivating as you'd think...but there are some interesting buildings. Don't expect to see a city full of British Colonial architecture (very few remnants survive). It does have its rules though...for example it's apparently highly illegal ($1000 fine and/or jail) to : chew gum, but nobody arrests me for breaking this law everyday; jaywalk - we should pay thousands for all the times we do this; spit or smoke in public places - this one we find easier to resist but not the rest of the population!
Wendy checks out the spice garden in Fort Canning Park...
Ginger!
An ear pod tree...seriously that's what it's called.
Off to Little India...
Lunch on a banana leaf. The waiter keeps trying to get us to try the fish head curry, a very popular dish here...and even after we insist on the chicken and vegetarian platters, he brings us a bowl full anyway...on the house... because you cannot come to Singapore without eating fish heads...
...Or without having a Singapore sling at Raffles Hotel...the place where it was created around 1915.
However, when we get to the Long Bar, the exact location of its birth, it's dark, dreary, full of complaining Australians and reeks of beer. We opt instead to have ours (well, Bruno anyway...I choose a less-sweet Saigon cooler) outside in the unconditioned courtyard. But with or without air-con, the price for a drink here is still $26 (about $21 Cdn). ouch!
Over to Arab street for some Turkish coffee and baklava.
We almost have this district to ourselves, as it's Ramadan and all the restaurants will stay empty until sundown.
This interesting building is called the Three Towers
What's happening in China Town
The menu lists this dish as pork with green peppers...that's green chilli peppers!! Bruno takes one taste and tells me it's all mine..I devour the whole plate.
This horrible looking stuff is the new craze...jellied, dry meat. It's actually quite tasty. I have to sneak a photo as the vendor doesn't want me to steal any trade secrets!?!? What if I just buy some?
There are beautiful flowers everywhere here.
The problem is with the humidity making the stone sidewalks slick enough, fallen blossoms make them downright treacherous. I see many people skidding over crushed flower corpses.
Our hotel as seen through the jungle that surrounds it. Right in the centre of the city, we stay in the middle of a huge tropical forest.
We love our private terrace surrounded by the jungle...here I am trying to see what creature is squawking in the tree over my head.
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